Chapter 4. The Parian Marble as a Literary Text The Parian Marble offers the rare opportunity to explore the textual qualities of an ancient piece of Greek chronography. However, literary scholars seem to have so far been reluctant to study it as a verbal artifact, probably due… Read more
Chapter 5. Time in the Parian Marble Time is ubiquitous in the Parian Marble, as suits its genre and purpose; it structures the inscription at all levels. While individual entries open with “from when” and conclude with dating formulae (by Athenian kings or archons), the text as… Read more
Chapter 6. Literary History in the Parian Marble Biographies of ancient Greek poets and musicians frequently rely on information found in the Parian Marble. [1] The inscription is held as a reference point, even when the validity of dates is called into… Read more
Final Words The Parian Marble is a long inscription of unknown authorship, cut on a tall stele for display on the island of Paros. It may best be described as a selective chronographic list, annalistic in style and panhellenic in scope. It belongs to the families of… Read more
Appendix: Thematic Classification of Events in the Parian Marble Epoque Political Event Military Event Cultural Events Religious Event A1 1 0 0 0 A2 1 … Read more
Plates [Due to copyright restrictions, the images included in the print version of this book are not available for reproduction online. Where possible, those images have been replaced by line drawings, open source images, or links to relevant citation information.] Plate 1. The Parian Marble, section… Read more
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II.1 Introduction §1. Homer and Pindar [1] represent the earliest and most important poetic genres of Archaic and Classical Greece: epic and lyric. Similar to drama, epic and lyric performance was social, interactive, and often ritual. There was a rhythm to Homeric epic and a… Read more
